If you’ve ever wondered why Hollywood has never produced a show where a shirtless Kevin Bacon walks down a small-town Texas street with a lamb wrapped around his neck before gently laying the animal down and shaving it with an electric razor, well, wonder no more.

This fever dream sequence — one more than a few dreamt up in the ’80s — comes in the fourth episode of Amazon’s not so subtly titled new dramedy “I Love Dick” (premiering May 12). It’s seen through the eyes of Chris (Kathryn Hahn), a New York filmmaker dropped into Marfa, Texas where her Holocaust scholar husband, Sylvere (Griffin Dunn), has snagged a residency under Bacon’s eponymous art institute founder. For Chris, the tumbleweed town offers little in the way of inspiration, until she lays eyes on Dick, in whom she sees a muse and an obsession.

But it’s not an obsession of pure infatuation. Out for a welcome dinner, Dick, in his grizzled, understated tone, stuns Chris by questioning the talent of women filmmakers like her, whom he says often make bummer movies because they have to work from behind oppression.